Show foretelling earthquakes A virginia correspondent of the new york staats records the circumstance that on the night of the earthquake erth quake which shook half the continent all locusts and crickets became strangely silent and did not resume their concert till after the third concussion anacreonte Anac reone pet feeding on air and de dew almost abaye earthly cares would seem to run no special risk in an earthquake but there is no doubt that animals have ments odess of less violent convulsions of nature says a writer in Lippin lippincotts cotes k magazine Magai ine squirrels anticipate gales and snowstorms by plugging up the weaker end of their nest nests migratory birds have learned to foresee an early winter and time their departure accordingly mosquitoes and spiders become enterprising before a long rain as if anxious to avail themselves of a last chance before a protracted suspension of business and many of our domestic animals are natives of regions gions where i e earthquakes are frequent enough to develop a special instinct through the medium of natural selection of the prophetic specimens spec imena on the evening of august 10 1772 when the dutch bet tiers ders of java were preparing to celebrate the second centennial 0 of f their colony a planter of Bo emberg in the regency of Pra enger euger eighty five miles southeast of batavia was re turning from a boar hunt in the thickets of a mountain river when tie le heard beard a crashing in the hill bill foret eit above alove and saw a troop of cows come meme down hill in headlong flight no shouts no threats would stop atop them they broke through the bush to avoid the main mein road and continued their mad career till they reached the open plain having recognized some cattle of his next neighbors before night sent out a a troop of his coolies who managed to head off the runaways but failed to drive them beyond the outskirts of ai the foothills farther they re fused to go and made a break for the plains at every attempt them on A few weeks previously jl number of malay vagrants had been seen in the neighborhood and were supposed to be lurking in the rocks of the uplands and on the following morning several of the neighbors organized a tramp hunt and patrolled the hilltops hill tops in every direction w without i lahout finding so ao much j a panther track or anything that could have explained the panic ot of their cattle but 11 at am a rum rums bling as of a heaby rockslide rock slide was heard in the hills and ana soon after noon began an earthquake which for once might have been very plausibly ascribed to a 11 subsidence of nf the primary rocks for the ground caved as over a collapsing mine and a tract of uplands fourteen biles miles long by eix six broad was nw wallowed in an abyss of the nether world the landslides land slides from the neighboring highlands in the course of the next day closed the jap zap but an area of eighty square stiles had actually disappeared with fill ita its mountains mountain saud and forests after ake catastrophe some natives came forward with an account of i strange fires which for several had been observed on the ridge of mount Papan davang a few miles inland inland orthe or the engulfed ingul fed district ct but bu ai their reports were not euy to verify a and nd east and west folklore folk lore betrays a proclivity to as opiate eath earthquakes quakes with an arup tion of flaa iee two daye days after the charleston upheaval the new york Z biar tar received a special dispatch fr from oin ten mile a station that distance from charleston where places have been discovered where great geysers existed for some time immediately after the shock one ono of hese thesel sent high vinto into the air powerful volumes of a clear fire blue sand fiand and hot water the stream was so great that it cut a ditch three inches deep and twice as wide through which the water passed off olt another Charl estonian went so far as to ascribe the whole e trouble to the outbreak of a bed of burning marl beneath the city during the earthquake period of 1812 too volcanic fires were seen about new madrid every few nights but had bad a way of disappearing bo fore morning together with their smoke and all traces of their activity the truth i is s that actual flames do not issue even from a volcano though in the midst of an eruption tho the whirls of aehee and cinders become luminous from the radiation of the glowing in the basin of the crater A few hours before the great earthquake of lima in 1746 the strange behavior of a dog ii is said to have inspired the barber perez with ft it foreboding that caused him to rush into the middle of the treet street and abrien out a warning which indeed did not come a minute too toon soon for a crowd of idlers rather than of refugees had just begun to gather about the augur when the crash of falling houses approached from the west end of the city and passing uptown up town with tho the swiftness of a storm brought down avalanches of rock walls on all sides the prophetic dog belonged to st visitor from callao a neighboring seaport town which in the moment of the catastrophe was struck by a tidal wave and swamped with a deluge that swept away all but forty of its inhabitants |